OpenShell

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What it does

An editorial selection.

Policy-enforced sandbox runtime for fleets of autonomous agents. You declare what each agent may touch: files, network, secrets.

Why it is listed

Lets agents be useful without giving them unrestricted access. Important infrastructure as agents get credentials.

GitHub describes it as: OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.

Counts were observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Observations older than 36 hours are excluded from current movement rankings.

Repository at a glance

Stars: 20,278
Forks: 1,996
Open issues: 389
Merged PRs: 1,844
Commits, last 30 days: 343
Stars, 7 days: unavailable
Stars, 30 days: unavailable

Counts observed on 27/10/2026, 23:15:40 UTC. Growth uses complete dated windows; see Methodology.

History

History: 2 observations, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28. Dots are observations; lines connect consecutive daily observations only.

Project details

Language: Rust
Licence: Apache-2.0
Created: 24 Feb 2026
Last push: 27 Oct 2026
Latest release: v0.1.6 · 27 Oct 2026
Category: Security
Topics: none listed
Observed: 2026-10-27 23:15:40 UTC

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Use the project's own documentation for supported platforms, dependencies and installation steps. The README and release notes are maintained by NVIDIA.

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Development context

These are observations of work in the repository. They do not establish quality, security or support commitments.

Total commits on default branch: 1,882
Open pull requests: 211
Closed issues, lifetime: 1,357
Median time to close an issue: 13.6 days
Median time to merge a pull request: 3.4 days

Close and merge times use up to 20 most recently updated closed issues or merged pull requests. They omit unresolved work and are context, not a maintenance score. Sample limits.

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